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• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  ’s important to understand how your foot is actually coming in contact with the ... heels do not really assist in running, it’s reasonable to expect that they ... should pay attention to how you land on your heel and the transitions from

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  to be taught how to make a snowman, which I feel is some essential life ... clearly not enough, though. So we run back to McCormick, print off a NO ... ’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal. To be honest, if it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  and walked home under soft, acidic streetlights to an empty house with ... .] consciousness at the scale of gravity, if neurons could tune to the fine geometric ... to the new coordinates aware of the slowing of time due to the ripples

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  feel two opposite feelings? how can we both want and not want something ... about how i love summer and didn't want the semester to start, but also ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  my laptop to respond to emails and texts since it looks like i’m not ... outside, and i’m finally able to fall asleep, though not for long since i ... fact harmless. i decide to reduce my obligations and to not pursue any

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious ... corridors that do happen to be indoors are famous and steeped with historical ... break, I decided to visit some of my Stanford friends and spend a day in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  ’re choosing to go in no thoughts head empty. Honestly this is the move. Or maybe ... the chance of things not turning out the way you want it to. I ... you’re proud of, or a realization of how you want to better the world

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  painting murals (on canvas, not the walls)...I'm going to be helping with ... to post... Well the semester (if not the year) looks very promising ... of yet another great semester in MIT arts, and to celebrate this MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  with how that information was stored. when many memories are similar to ... really important. Not only does doing new things seem to slow down the ... been so restless. but sometimes this desire feels empty - i have not yet

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far away as fast as possible, to start fresh, to not think about the stresses ... , and searching for ways to help, and not adding to the media spectacle

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  .t. To determine after analytical deliberation not to do something, said of something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing something. (definition from How To Get Around MIT)   Which brings us to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT ... my reservations—I thought it was bad form for them to ask me how much I ... them as to not give away any identifying information about this company

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  have to relax,” she told him, not for the first time. Ted favored her an ... empty, heaving sobs, he staggered to his knees and stared at the metal ... I got the urge to write this short story about 2 days ago. Then, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  advantage of a new opportunity that allows MIT students to visit the Isabella ... them as stipulated in her will. This rule is followed to the extent that the empty frames of artwork that was stolen in a heist during the 1990s

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  good vibes[/annotation] so I don't show up to the blogs empty ... many, if not all, of my dear friends make fun of me for and something that used to embarrass me but am now simply too tired to care because

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not ... Research Science Institute, it became very easy to fall into the trap of not ... empty seat to poke at the supposedly sweet-and-sour pork I'd loaded on my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  mind. That’s not to say I didn’t worry about things, BUT the fact that I ... moment for you to learn from and then, despite how hard it seems, move on ... my body. I felt empty, but I knew it wouldn’t be long before sorrow

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to ... with my friends. Unlike many MIT students, we chose not to go to Puerto ... Houston, Texas. Why, you ask? Well, why not? I'd never been to Texas, Amber

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  people's minds. Not to mention it looked fabulous--I'm beginning a campaign ... possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions ... have an opportunity to re-fly tomorrow for better scores. However, when

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  "]panhellenic recruitment,[/annotation] then stressed about not being able to fit all the ... gate at jfk... how i'd missed this[/caption] Now, you have to understand ... lines to be seen anywhere at all. And in that emptiness, I felt a distance

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020